marcello said:

I think you should program one over the weekend in BASIC to keep up your record of phenomenal software success stories.

i'm busy this weekend. but i'll get to it next month, i promise... but it's appropriate that -- on my way out -- you'd try to smear me because i use _basic_ -- goodness gracious -- since that was exactly what you did when i first appeared. you also thought it was fashionable to try and ridicule me because i'm on a.o.l., so do try and work that in now too... because you can bet money that when i start up my blog and tell the world what a bunch of idiots are running the show here, i will make fun of you because you're a bunch of script kiddies who think that you'll rule the world because you know reg-ex.

Oh, no! He learned a new buzzword. He'll never let us hear the end of it.

actually, i've served my one-year sentence here, much of it in solitary, so i'll be leaving very shortly. oh, i learned that "buzzword" a long, long time ago. as far as "finding" things goes, it's a silver bullet... and if anyone wants to see it applied to books, the guy at alexlit was doing it many years ago. might wanna talk to him about it... -bowerbird